Effect of seat surface inclination on postural control during reaching in preterm children with cerebral palsy

Physical Therapy

Volumn 87, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 861-871

  Hadders Algra, Mijna ^a   Van Der Heide, Jolanda C ^a   Fock, Johanna M ^a   Stremmelaar, Elisabeth ^a   Van Eykern, Leo A ^a   Otten, Bert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; CEREBRAL PALSY; CHILD; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; KINEMATICS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREMATURITY; SEAT; SITTING; SPASTICITY;

BIOMECHANICS; CEREBRAL PALSY; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; POSTURE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 34347363064     PISSN: 00319023     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2522/ptj.20060330     Document Type: Article

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